The gear we use!!
Paul’s Gear
Guitars
Fender Deluxe Strat and a Line 6 Variax 600. Just stock guitars really, its surprising how good these guitars are, I haven't found a bum note yet that cannot be played on either of them. Custom pickups were an option, but they don't really offer anything that cant already be played incorrectly with the standard pickups.
Strings are .09-.42 gauge, from the Ernie Ball Sensations range. I'm currently using Nickel with Balsamic vinegar and chive
Amps
Fender Twin-Amp. Not only a great amp, but runs sufficiently hot enough to produce a fine jacket potato at the end of a gig.
Chris's gear
Axe of choice
Olympia Roughneck Log Splitting Maul
A heavy splitting axe,which can be used as a hammer for driving a wedge into oversized or difficult Guitarists. JUST right for those never ending solos. Or when the Drummer wants to build yet another shed.
Bass Guitars
Pedulla Thunder Bass 4
Fitted with Bartolini soap bar pickups and thunderguts switch , this is real good for drowning out the lead guitarist when I can't get to him with the axe, when he whittles on aimlessly.
Amps
SWR Bass Rig
350X Bass head into 1, 4x10 8ohm SWR cab. I just love the way the bass sound from this makes the bar staff want to throw up!
The drummer also can't hear a thing and have to guess the time signature we are in. This is often better than when they do know what they are doing.
Lynn's gear
Keyboards
Upper deck - Poland, post war import series incorporating sound samples and patches created from the noise of removing twisted metal embedded in concrete using only fingernails and a trowel. My favourite patch is the pirate eye-patch, but I have also added expansion boards for those elusive sounds that you can only get with the likes of “Ultimate Keys” (Chubb, Yale and Mortice Deadlock) and my favourite sample is the 33mg urine “the morning after”, you can hear us using it live when we perform “Won’t Get Oiled Again”.
Lower deck - Borg, post intergalactic invasion version 4 incorporating sound samples and patches created by screaming through galaxies at warp factor 6. Limited edition. We still haven’t discovered what the black and white bits running along the edge are for but we’re working on the assumption that it doubles as a Vulcan typewriter.
Below the Waterline – very expensive sound module, over 4,000 fantastic sounds, patches, modes, effects, performance parameters and operations. We use it once a gig for thunder.
Amps
Carlsbro keyboard amp, probably the best keyboard amp in the world. Or it probably was before the years of neglect.
Sax
Buescher LyingTone, relative of the famous TrueTone – it only pretends to be in tune at warm up to lull us into a false sense of musicality. I have of course tried every mouthpiece and reed combination on the market, and from other shops and internet, from the squealing wild boar to the vomiting screech owl, but have finally plumped for the luscious tones of the hand crafted Marty Feldman with Oliver Reeds.
Flute
Yamaha – was once part of a DT125 exhaust pipe and still sounds like it is.
Andrew's gear
Clive's gear (Courtesy of M&S)
PA & Guitars
These aren’t just PA speakers.....
these speakers have been drop-kicked into a minefield in war torn Afghanistan, boiled in salt water and coated in iron filings
This isn't just a Microphone......
this microphone has been soaked in petrol, and thrown into a pit of molten lava, before being slow roasted in a burnt-out car
These aren't just guitars.........
these guitars has been battered and kicked, physically abused to the point of destruction then left to season in a Nuclear waste depot
This isn't just PA Gear......this is Clive's PA gear
Please note
Every connection and lead used are of the eco-friendly type which conform to Euro targets for 2050..... for every 2kw of power used the dodgy connections will ensure only 0.975kw are actually consumed.